This afternoon I had the great pleasure of seeing how wonderful it is
for Great Britain to “take back control“ in celebration of Brexit.
I thought I would share my joy with you.
Having queued in the post office for an hour to be told that I had to
join another queue as only one lady was trained to help me, I joined her queue
to wait for 20 minutes.
The charming lady told me to join a further 10 minute queue for a photo machine as unlike passports it could not be a digital photo.
Armed with my paper photos I rejoined a queue for another 30 minutes.
The lady asked me which European countries I would be driving in over
the next year. As I will be driving in several countries I was thrilled to find that I had taken so much control back that I
would need four international driving permits, each
inscribed with details of the Convention on Road Traffic of 19th of September
1949; into which decade I definitely felt I had now lapsed.
A rather scruffy piece of card was then inscribed manually with my details.
My photograph was glued into it. This
process was repeated four times.
Having parted with £28 for the privilege of driving in Europe, I was
thrilled to find that I could take back control and repeat the whole process
and make the same payment next year; subject to increase by Her Majesty’s
government.
As I left the post office I was overjoyed to see that the pound had
fallen dramatically further today thus ensuring that I could feel even more impoverished than previous falls in Sterling have already made me.
Nevertheless, having reverted to a period of my early childhood when
travel was so much more difficult, I will
benefit from feeling awfully nostalgic while I drive in
poverty through Europe, with my four antediluvian card passes.
I’m really looking forward to taking back more control on 31 October.
I really don't understand the greed of the Brexit traitors. What on earth do they need so much that they will destroy their country to get it? I'm getting my basket and my knitting needles out .
A few days ago, I read coward-Cameron's justifications for creating the vortex of chaos in to which our country was hurled and is still trapped for over three years. He calls it, For the Record. His, very selective record.
Today, I read Jo Johnson's review. Rather generous, I think but there are some meatier comments there too.
Johnson comments that in this book: "..there’s not a word on the hostile environment
the Home Office was actually creating. ….only one short paragraph on the daft
and now abandoned net migration target that raised the salience
of the issue on which Ukip thrived…"
The proud achievements of T May, of course.
In his book, DC includes amusing comments too: "the ‘outdated old clunker’ Iain
Duncan Smith, who as leader dismayed modernisers by doing things like whipping
the party against supporting unmarried couples’ right to adopt."
Johnson also adds:"The biggest leaker in government, Gove was so
distrusted in the building that when he was sacked as education secretary and
appointed chief whip, Downing Street secretly introduced the ‘Gove Protocol’ to
limit his involvement in policy making."
We certainly remember that this traitor stopped his co-conspirator from becoming PM in 2016...
Johnson does not think DC's book offers a "credible account of the decision to call an
in-out referendum. It’s a good effort, but I’m not sure it is wholly
convincing."
I almost expected the customary addition: " He must try harder.... "
"Cameron insists that Britain’s status in Europe
was ‘becoming increasingly unsustainable, as the whole project
continued to mutate into something so different from what we signed up to all
those years ago’....
We had special dispensations that gave us, among other
things, the unique advantage of a free ride on the single market with our own
currency and monetary policy. Less sustainable than what realistic alternative?
...the commitment to an in-out referendum, ...was first and foremost a tool for party management after a disastrous
year in which he had lost the public over the omnishambles budget, the press
over Leveson, coalition unity over Lords reform and, potentially, the next
general election over the failure to redraw constituency boundaries. His
leadership was in jeopardy."
In other words, Cameron did it for reasons of self-preservation entirely.
"On Europe, the Conservative party was growing
increasingly ungovernable, ... the EU had become the juiciest target for politicians
seeking simultaneously to appeal to sceptical Tory grass roots and channel the
anger of communities left behind by globalisation and technological disruption.
....By the time Cameron actually held the
referendum, the forces of populism had grown far stronger than he’d ever
anticipated.
..... Cameron’s mistake was not so much to hold a referendum, as not to have
done so earlier, …, before the cumulative effects of six years of austerity.
...his fatal error was to have allowed a referendum
question and campaign that did not define a credible and deliverable leave
option. ....
For the Record ends where the
sorriest three and a half years in modern British history begin. "
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I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther KingI'll be there, accompanied by daughter and SIL.
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Duncan Lustig-Prean
8 October at 15:49
This afternoon I had the great pleasure of seeing how wonderful it is for Great Britain to “take back control“ in celebration of Brexit.I thought I would share my joy with you.
Having queued in the post office for an hour to be told that I had to join another queue as only one lady was trained to help me, I joined her queue to wait for 20 minutes.
The charming lady told me to join a further 10 minute queue for a photo machine as unlike passports it could not be a digital photo. Armed with my paper photos I rejoined a queue for another 30 minutes.
The lady asked me which European countries I would be driving in over the next year. As I will be driving in several countries I was thrilled to find that I had taken so much control back that I would need four international driving permits, each inscribed with details of the Convention on Road Traffic of 19th of September 1949; into which decade I definitely felt I had now lapsed.
A rather scruffy piece of card was then inscribed manually with my details. My photograph was glued into it. This process was repeated four times.
Having parted with £28 for the privilege of driving in Europe, I was thrilled to find that I could take back control and repeat the whole process and make the same payment next year; subject to increase by Her Majesty’s government.
As I left the post office I was overjoyed to see that the pound had fallen dramatically further today thus ensuring that I could feel even more impoverished than previous falls in Sterling have already made me.
Nevertheless, having reverted to a period of my early childhood when travel was so much more difficult, I will benefit from feeling awfully nostalgic while I drive in poverty through Europe, with my four antediluvian card passes.
I’m really looking forward to taking back more control on 31 October.
I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character
Martin Luther KingToday, I read Jo Johnson's review. Rather generous, I think but there are some meatier comments there too.
Johnson comments that in this book: "..there’s not a word on the hostile environment the Home Office was actually creating. ….only one short paragraph on the daft and now abandoned net migration target
that raised the salience of the issue on which Ukip thrived…"
The proud achievements of T May, of course.
In his book, DC includes amusing comments too: "the ‘outdated old clunker’ Iain Duncan Smith, who as leader dismayed modernisers by doing things like whipping the party against supporting unmarried couples’ right to adopt."
Johnson also adds: "The biggest leaker in government, Gove was so distrusted in the building that when he was sacked as education secretary and appointed chief whip, Downing Street secretly introduced the ‘Gove Protocol’ to limit his involvement in policy making."
We certainly remember that this traitor stopped his co-conspirator from becoming PM in 2016...
Johnson does not think DC's book offers a "credible account of the decision to call an in-out referendum. It’s a good effort, but I’m not sure it is wholly convincing."
I almost expected the customary addition: " He must try harder.... "
"Cameron insists that Britain’s status in Europe was ‘becoming increasingly unsustainable, as the whole project continued to mutate into something so different from what we signed up to all those years ago’....
We had special dispensations that gave us, among other things, the unique advantage of a free ride on the single market with our own currency and monetary policy. Less sustainable than what realistic alternative?
...the commitment to an in-out referendum, ...was first and foremost a tool for party management after a disastrous year in which he had lost the public over the omnishambles budget, the press over Leveson, coalition unity over Lords reform and, potentially, the next general election over the failure to redraw constituency boundaries. His leadership was in jeopardy."
In other words, Cameron did it for reasons of self-preservation entirely.
"On Europe, the Conservative party was growing increasingly ungovernable, ... the EU had become the juiciest target for politicians seeking simultaneously to appeal to sceptical Tory grass roots and channel the anger of communities left behind by globalisation and technological disruption.
....By the time Cameron actually held the referendum, the forces of populism had grown far stronger than he’d ever anticipated.
..... Cameron’s mistake was not so much to hold a referendum, as not to have done so earlier, …, before the cumulative effects of six years of austerity.
...his fatal error was to have allowed a referendum question and campaign that did not define a credible and deliverable leave option. ....
For the Record ends where the sorriest three and a half years in modern British history begin. "
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/david-camerons-for-the-record-ends-where-the-sorriest-three-years-in-modern-british-history-begins